Annie Jump Cannon

She Filled the Sky:The Awesome Astronomy ofAnnie Jump Cannon

This week’s post you get an awesome cartoon by the fabDale DeBakcsy from the Illustrated Women in Science series at MadArtLab in addition to the usual written profile! Enjoy!

350,000 stars classified.It’s one of astronomy’s unbreakable and frankly not even approachable records, the scientific equivalent of the Ripken Streak. Seven hours a day, six days a week, for forty-four years, one woman bent herself to the task of creating...